Usually means: Pertaining to small lung air sacs.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word alveolar:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. alveolar: Merriam-Webster
  2. alveolar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alveolar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alveolar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alveolar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alveolar, alveolar: Wordnik
  7. alveolar: Wiktionary
  8. alveolar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alveolar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. alveolar: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. alveolar: Dictionary.com
  12. Alveolar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Alveolar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. alveolar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. alveolar: Rhymezone
  16. Alveolar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. alveolar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. alveolar: FreeDictionary.org
  19. alveolar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. alveolar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. alveolar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. alveolar: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alveolar: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alveolar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. alveolar: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Alveolar: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. alveolar: Medical dictionary
  5. Alveolar: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alveolar: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See alveolarly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (anatomy, relational) Relating to the alveoli (small air sacs) of the lungs.
adjective:  (anatomy, relational) Relating to the jaw ridge containing the tooth sockets.
adjective:  (phonetics) Formed with the tongue touching or approaching the inner ridge of the gums of the upper front teeth.
adjective:  (anatomy, relational) Relating to the glands with secretory cells about a central space.
noun:  (phonetics) An alveolar consonant.

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